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Feds: NY man tried to extort $250K from Paula Deen
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Updated 2:05 pm, Friday, July 5, 2013
ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities on Friday arrested a New York man charged with trying to extort money from embattled celebrity cook Paula Deen in exchange for not going to the media with "true and damning statements" he said she made.
FBI agents and local sheriff's deputies arrested Thomas George Paculis, 62, of Newfield, N.Y.,
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